Footstool



R. SANSOM Foo'rsTooL Filed Sept. 23 1922 Ray Sansom 1 mmlm Patented Feb. 19, 1924.

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RAY SANSOIVI, 0F CUSICK, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM B. KIRiK,

OF USK, WASHING-TON.

FOOTSTOOL.

Application filed September To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAY SANsoM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cusick, in Pend Oreille County and State of Wash ington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Footstools, of which the following is a specificaton.

The present invention relates to improvements in foot stools of the convertible type, which although primarily designed for use as foot-rests, may be embodied in proper sizes for use as piano stools or seats, and for other purposes.

When used as a foot rest or foot stool, the device may be utilized as a stationary support for the feet of the user when 00-- cupying an ordinary chair. With facility and convenience the foot stool may be 0011- verted to a rocking stool for use by the occupant of a rocking chair in order that the feet may rest upon a rocking support. And further the device when converted as a rocking support may be utilized by the occupant of a fixed chair, as a movable support for the feet.

The invention as embodied in a stool is comparatively simple in construction, composed of a minimum number of parts, is inexpensive in cost of manufacture, and may with convenience and facility be converted for its various uses.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts in connection with the supports for the stool, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention Where in the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the stool converted for use as a rocker, showing in dotted lines the position of the rockers when inverted for a stationary support.

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view showing the locking bolt and connections between the rocker and a leg of the stool.

Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the rocker inverted and used as a stationary support together with the snap-pin for retaining the rocker member in rigid relation to the leg of the stool.

23, 1922. Serial No, 590,031.

In Figure 1 a preferred form of the invention is illustrated where the stool is provided with an upholstered or cushioned top or body 1, rectangular in shape and of deof t 1, may be varied to meet differ ent conditions and requirements. In this instance the structure is made up of wood capable of high polish and durable as well asstron'g. The legs are connected a horizontal brace'3 connected by mortise'fand tenon joint and locking pegs in usual manner, and the brace is adapted for use as a shelf when desired.

At their lower ends the legs are provided with comparatively wide, arched feet as 4:, and'the ends of the feet have squared bases 5, 5, spaced apart as shown, to which are connected foldable rockers 6, 6. These rockers or rocker members have pairs of mortises 7, 7, and are hinged at 8, 8, to the squared bases 5 of the feet of the stool in order that the rockers may swing on their hinges outwardly and up, or inwardly and down to the positions indicated in Figure 1. The rockers are of arched shape with rounded outer edges for rocking on the floor, and their extremities 9 are rounded and adapted to rest firmly, as feet on the floor, when the rockers are turned or folded up, as in dotted lines Figure 1. I

On the outer faces of the legs of the stool are secured extensions 10, each of which has a shoulder 11 conforming to the curvature of the outer edge ofthe rocker 6. These extensions may be of ornamental shape and fastened in suitable manner to the legs of the stool, in position to rest 011 the central, rounded portions of the rockers, when the stool is being used as a stationary support. And in this position each rocker is retained against folding or swinging movement on its hinges. For this purpose the face of the shoulder 11 is bored out to form a recess 12 in Which a spring-stud 13 is retained, and the spring 14 in the recess above the pin urges the spring-stud outwardly as usual. A complementary socket 15 is provided in the rounded, outer edge of the rocker into which the spring-stud is snapped when the rocker is folded up to dotted position in Figure 1, and in the locked position of Fig ure 3. By this spring stud the rocker is retained in position with relation'to the leg. and the Weight of the stool is carried by the rocker and extension on the leg.

When the stool is used as in full lines in Figure 1 and as shown in Figure 2,-the foldable rockers are locked to the legs, as by locking bolts 16, one for each rocker. These bolts are projected into sockets 17 in the edges of the mortised portions 7 of the rockers, through openings provided therefor in the hinges 8, and hold the rockers and legs in rigid position. A locking bolt 16 is carried inreach leg,ior rather in a base portion of the foot of each leg, and the bolt is fashioned as a rack bar 18 reciprocable in the bolt opening or hole 19 in the base portion 5. By means of a rack'wheel 20 in this opening and engaging the rack bar the bolt may be operated, and a hand wheel 21, outside the base-portion-is used to turn the rack wheel by means of the journaled shaft 22. Thus When the rockers are to be inverted and folded to dotted position Figure 1 the bolts 16 are first withdrawn from their foot rest, or for a seat.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The combination with a stool leg having an arched foot providing spaced bases and a complementary shoulder thercabove, of a rocker hinged at the spaced bases of said arched foot, a spring pressed stud projecting below the under face of said shoulder, and a complementary socket member in the rocking face of the rocker, whereby the latter may be retained in inverted position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

RAY SANSOM. 

